Foreign Rights List Spring 2013 ADION ULPUTAT. LORE TAT! Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad mincipissim do ea faci blam erat. Ut duisi. Ustrud eum do er ilit digna commy nosto delit accummodo core facillaortie venim ad dui et lamet inibh eros duisl enibh et vel ing elendre rcipit, quipit nos dipsustis dolesse quipit ipit luptatue mincilit utat. Ut praesed tin vent la acipit adiamcon. »Min utpat augueratum eumsan henit ad mincipissim do ea faci blam erat. Ut duisi. facilla venim ad dui et adiamcon lamet inibh« Dieter Krusche Originalausgabe ISBN 978-3-492-20000-0 € 00,00 [A] € 00,00 [D] www.piper.de 6719 FICTION Novels..............................................................1 Crime................................................................6 Women’s Fiction...............................................8 Fantasy.............................................................9 NON-FICTION Memoir...........................................................13 Gift Book.........................................................14 Society............................................................15 Psychology......................................................16 History............................................................16 Travel & Adventure..........................................17 Exclusive Agents..............................................19 Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de Fiction/Novels Fiction/Novels Inger-Maria Mahlke Elisabeth rank Unfinished Business Are You Still Awake? A panopticon of precarious existences inhabit an Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves. apartment building in a multi-cultural neighbourhood Often, we trust them above all others. But just how in Berlin, and every one of them has unfinished busi- robust are our specially selected kinships? Elisabeth ness – with someone else, with themselves, and with Rank has written a poetic and sensitive novel about life. loneliness, love and friendship, but also about saying goodbye. About the Book About the Book Berlin-Neukölln: When shopaholic Claas Jansen is forced to move into an empty flat in his own apartment build- rea and Konrad live together in a shared apartment, ing, there is far more to blame than just the banking cri- and are the very best of friends. As rea’s thirtieth sis. And it’s not just Claas who sees his former life disap- birthday creeps ever nearer, a certain sense of dis- pearing in a rapid downward spiral. Here, on the brink satisfaction seems to weigh increasingly heavy on her of becoming a trendy capital city, no problem is any less shoulders: she feels like she has visited every club, existential: Everyone has unfinished business – the -Af lived every experience, seen every wild and beautiful rican dealers, who are working off their smuggling fees; sunset. Questions play constantly on her mind: what the legacy hunters and the Alzheimer-afflicted elderly; next? In what direction is life taking her? the part-time dominatrix, who leaves her nine-year-old son behind; not to mention countless other figures. A Konrad’s life, on the other hand, seems already to globalised community in a state of emergency. But in Specifications: be right on track; a track that leads him away from Specifications: the end, everything pans out according to the usual rea. Suddenly, he has a girlfriend; the first in all these ways of the world. • Berlin Verlag Hardcover • Berlin Verlag Hardcover • 284 pages years. Unable to bear all of the new noises in the • ca. 280 pages apartment, rea seeks refuge in a supposedly carefree Sensitive and radical, Inger-Maria Mahlke has sketched • February 2013 • March 2013 summer holiday – instead she finds simply that the much more than just a diagnostic portrait of the era – • World Rights Available • World Rights Available (except Bosnian, Ser- mess she is in becomes all the more obvious. Could hers is a great parable about the abysses of life on the bian, Croatian) it be that we have become too unattached and self- fringe of our gentrified world. centred for friendship? Born in Hamburg in 1977, Inger-Maria Mahlke studied Law at the Elisabeth Rank was born in 1984 in Berlin. For the last ten years, Freie Universität Berlin and worked on various projects for the De- she has been working as a freelance author for various magazines partment of Criminology. In 2009, Mahlke was the prize-winner and publications. On a daily basis, she is also employed in the field at the 17th Open Mike, and in 2010 she was awarded the Klaus of digital brand management. Her first novel,U ND IM ZWEIFEL FÜR Sibylle Baier Carolin Weinkopf © Michael Kühne Prize for her debut novel SILBErfischchen. At the © DICH selbst, was published in 2010. 2012 Festival of German Language Literature in Klagenfurt, she was honoured with the Ernst Willner Prize. Mahlke lives in Berlin. Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] 1 Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de 2 Fiction/Novels Fiction/Novels Gisa Klönne Sophie Weiss Starling Song after Frost Humility and Pride The Queen of Suspense: Gisa Klönne returns with a major novel about dark family secrets. Powerful men relish power. And that doesn’t stop in A vicarage which harbours a dark family secret. A tre- the bedroom. They exercise it on women like Sophie. mendous tale of forbidden love with a tragic conclu- The scene Sophie frequents is not known to many. sion in 1945. A family divided by the German-German The truths it contains are titillating, kinky, and fea- border. And a musician’s search for her roots and a ture some prominent figures. voice of her own. About the Book About the Book Sophie and richard meet at a slave auction. In his Ever since her brother perished in a road accident, late forties, he is a well-known financier and knows rixa Hinrichs has been trying to forget: her grief, her his way around the secret world of S & M. She is bungled solo career and the mute melancholy of a young, curious, and an absolute beginner. mother who has always rejected rixa’s passion for the piano. richard introduces Sophie to exclusive circles; they meet in hotels and at private orgies. Sophie falls in rixa tinkles her way round the world as a bar pianist love with him, who has a family and cheats on his until her mother’s death forces her return to Germa- wife with ease. When he realises that their affair is ny. It was a car accident, too – almost the exact spot racing out of control, he decides to end it. After one where rixa’s brother had died years earlier. Search- last sexual encounter. A consenting one – to begin Specifications: Specifications: with at least. Sophie presses charges against richard ing for answers, rixa returns to her grandparents’ • Piper Hardcover vicarage in Mecklenburg in the north, a place associ- – but how can a woman speak of violence when she • Pendo Hardcover • 160 pages ated with carefree holidays as a child. However rixa’s has willingly submitted to months of being chained, • February 2013 • 480 pages humiliated, and beaten? memories, it transpires, are not watertight: she be- • February 2013 • World Rights Available comes aware of a tightly guarded family secret which • World Rights Available continues to cast its long shadows into the present- HUMILITY AND PRIDE is an autobiographical novel day – not only her mother’s life is affected, so too her about sexual dependency and the capricious line brother’s and her own. In order to loosen its grip, she between dominance and desire, pain and love. Ex- will have to delve deep into her family’s past . plicit and authentic. Gisa Klönne, born 1964, studied English and Politics and worked as an editor and journalist. Her highly acclaimed novels, centering around Sophie Weiss, born 1983, lives in Berlin with her husband. She works in superintendent Judith Krieger, were translated into numerous lan- the media industry. HUMILITY AND PRIDE is her first novel, in which she guages and won several awards, including the Friedrich-Glauser-Prize portrays a life her husband does not know. for Crime Novels. Gisa Klönne is the grandchild of a priest from Meck- lenburg herself and part of a family that was devided by the Inner Ger- © Felix Brüggemann man border. Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] Foreign Rights Contacts: Mr. Sven Diedrich: [email protected], Ms. Hanna Dürholt: [email protected] 3 Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de Piper Verlag GmbH, Georgenstr. 4. 80799 München, Germany, Telephone: +49 (0)89 38 18 01-26 , www.piper.de 4 Fiction/Novels Fiction/Crime Andrea Sawatzki Susanne Mischke The Girl Who Was Too Good Kill If You Can! An old man, slaughtered, and a young woman in How far are you allowed to go for your child? distress – Andrea Sawatzki’s first novel gets under Just imagine, your child has been kidnapped and you one’s skin. are given the choice – either you become a killer, or you spend the rest of your life despairing over a missed opportunity. Which one would you choose? About the Book Her red hair gleams through the green of the trees. About the Book Barefoot and distraught, she is found in woodland. What she tells the psychiatrist is heartrending. But is Every mother’s worst nightmare has just come true: it also the truth? Actress Andrea Sawatzki delivers an Tinka Hansson takes her eyes off her sleeping daugh- impressive debut.